Sr. Solutions architect for the United States Air Force (USAF). Migrated on-premise applications to AWS Govcloud, AWS Secret and AWS Top Secret regions. Recommend and implemented architectural enhancements to improve application high availability and fault tolerance. Automated client workflows. Supported mission-critical DCGS applications.

Sr. Oracle DBA and Systems Engineer responsible for building a remote disaster recovery solution. Utilized Oracle ASM and Oracle Data Guard to replicate data in real time to remote site. Migrated Solaris systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Participated in DBA and SA on-call rotation. Received performance accolades for exceeding KPIs such as system uptime.

Promoted to Sr. DBA. Continued prior responsibilities and lead a small team consisting of a junior DBA and Server Administrator. Developed Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution for USAF customer. Directed and participated in full rebuild of classified systems environment as a result of a catastrophic failure. Mentored colleagues. Migrated Oracle 11g databases to Oracle 12c with zero downtime. Migrated Oracle Linux servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with zero downtime. Designed, built, and deployed a clustered enterprise search solution utilizing Apache Solr and Apache Zookeeper serving over 4,000 users worldwide.

Administered classified and unclassified database infrastructure, consisting of primary and standby Oracle 10g and 11g instances, as well as SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008R2 servers at multiple locations including a remote warm site. Ensured redundancy through installing and utilizing Oracle Data Guard. Secured databases in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) regulations.

Department manager for newly built distribution center supporting over 300 stores in the Southeast region. Lead DBA and HP-UX Administrator, acting as the lone support engineer on call 7x24x365. Managed departmental budget of over $750,000/yr. Supervised hourly employees tasked with various Tier 1 support tasks. Maintained 99.95% system uptime.